Steady as a rock

It’s 3:50 am now. I’ve rushed to install a new laptop after the disk in another one gave loads of errors during a dist-upgrade to gutsy. Not nice! Fortunately no significant data was lost and I can continue working on this one.

Almost a year after I released the last version (1.5.3) of the falcon repository manager, beta 1 of version 2 is finally here! In the past months I’ve completely rewritten it, so if you need to manage a repository of .deb files, here’s a good application for you

New features in this release:

• Scanning code no longer uses apt-ftparchive
• All internal data is modeled using django, making it very flexible
• The templates for html indices are als django-based
• It is translatable!
• Configuration is now even easier, using an interactive config editor
• Numerous fixes and improvements
• The beginning of a plugin system is created (completion in beta 2)
• Same for an automatic building system (completion in beta 2)
• You can now easily install single source packages and binaries into the archive
• Having all data internally cached makes the code much less fragile
• Support for sha1/sha256 checksums in Packages and Sources files
• Compis with the new python policy, so compatible with edgy/feisty

Of course all the original features are still there:

• Support for multiple releases & components
• GPG signed repository
• Themable HTML indices
• No hassle with incoming if you don’t want to use it (but now you can easily use it!)
• Quick and easy creation of .iso images

Grab a deb at my repo or download the source with bzr from http://blackbird.kaarsemaker.net/code/falcon